Bambou
A pale green haze of ginger and bergamot opens with unexpected warmth, the cardamom threading through like smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Woody70
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Bamboo
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readA pale green haze of ginger and bergamot opens with unexpected warmth, the cardamom threading through like smoke. This isn't the crisp, watery bamboo of a minimalist candle but something earthier and more grounded. The basil arrives shortly after, herbaceous and slightly peppery, keeping the composition from drifting into abstraction.
As it settles, the woods emerge with surprising gentleness. Sandalwood and cedar provide a soft, almost dusty foundation that lets the green notes breathe rather than smothering them. The musk stays close to the skin, never shouting.
Bambou works best in warm weather, worn by someone who wants greenness without sharpness, woods without heaviness. It occupies that rare middle ground between fresh and meditative, neither purely energizing nor entirely calm. The kind of scent that disappears into your day, then surfaces unexpectedly when you move your wrist.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
